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ADHD Dopamine discord channel (discord.gg)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) by vaderaj@lemmy.world to c/adhd@lemmy.world
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Hi channel,

Few days ago I made a post sighting my concerns around feeling lonely and craving insane dopamine. I got a lot of interesting suggestions while I am trying a lot of things: one at a time (hopefully).

I found this discord channel with multiple threads for body doubling, noise, general chat etc.. Just felt it would be interesting to share such a thing.

Edit: spelling

Craving insane dopamine (and possibly loneliness) in c/adhd@lemmy.world
[–] vaderaj@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Thanks a lot, the thing is I have been in Australia for 2.5 years for now. Had a great friend circle in Melbourne, but shifted to Sydney because for jobs and I am going bonkers because of the same

Craving insane dopamine (and possibly loneliness) in c/adhd@lemmy.world
[–] vaderaj@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I don't think so.

Craving insane dopamine (and possibly loneliness) in c/adhd@lemmy.world
[–] vaderaj@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah I am in need of socialising, thanks for suggesting volunteering and agree on the shared purpose aspect as well.

Thanks

Craving insane dopamine (and possibly loneliness) in c/adhd@lemmy.world
[–] vaderaj@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

What happened with Lexapro is, firstly my gut got worse, second (my theory) I feel like stimulants make me active but Lexapro makes me go insanely lazy: a lot of times, I would be insanely hungry but I wouldn't want to eat or walk till hallway to put food in my mouth and this is what I mean by it made me feel dud.

Craving insane dopamine (and possibly loneliness) in c/adhd@lemmy.world
[–] vaderaj@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I was on Paraxetene before Lexapro, but gradually discontinued it. Presently used Lexapro for 5 weeks before I discontinued, the biggest reason I discontinued it is because it makes my gut horrible and I cannot tolerate it

Craving insane dopamine (and possibly loneliness) in c/adhd@lemmy.world
[–] vaderaj@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Sure, I will discuss with my doctors. Thanks

Craving insane dopamine (and possibly loneliness) in c/adhd@lemmy.world
[–] vaderaj@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

As part of my prescription recommendations, I am due for a medical test soon. I dont want to mess that up, but will discuss with my doctors once regarding mushrooms.

Further, primary care doctor cannot recommend strattera in Australia (NSW)

Craving insane dopamine (and possibly loneliness) in c/adhd@lemmy.world
[–] vaderaj@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Thanks a lot, I am not smoking weed now and putting in a lot of mindful efforts to not to start smoking. I am just hoping for the best 😅

Craving insane dopamine (and possibly loneliness) in c/adhd@lemmy.world
[–] vaderaj@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I am finding it so difficult to deal with psychiatrist's in Australia (moved from India to Australia), as there are insane wait times and only they are authorised to change my meds and I dont have a prescription for strattera.

Craving insane dopamine (and possibly loneliness) in c/adhd@lemmy.world
[–] vaderaj@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I take Ritalin LA-30mg, the highest recommended dose for my genetics (Indian) is about 40mg. I used to take Lexapro, started observing that SSRI's make me feel very dud and have stopped taking it in the past few days

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Craving insane dopamine (and possibly loneliness) (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by vaderaj@lemmy.world to c/adhd@lemmy.world
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Hi Community,

As the title suggests, I feel like I am craving insane amounts of dopamine and looking for some sort of a human connection.

A bit of context, I have never lived by myself for most of my life: My school days were spent in hostel, further during my bacholers days I was always surrounded by my friends and we used to go out almost all days of the week. The first time I ever sort of lived by myself was during my first job, during which I started observing similar kind of feeling (I wasn't diagnosed then) and to subside this feeling I used to smoke weed, it made me calm.

Fast forward to now, I have realised weed is a bad cope up mechanism (don't smoke weed now) but I am going insane and unable to function at my best. I kind of get hyperfixated on my dating app matches, or go insane if my friends don't pick up my call etc.

I am trying to distract myself with things I like such as movies, or finding new novelty, trying to meditate etc. I do weekly therapy as well. But despite all the efforts, I feel like I am going insane and thus reaching out to the community for any help.

Edit: I take Ritalin LA - 30mg, used to take SSRI (Lexapro) and stopped it few days back as I feel very dud when I take those.

Edit 2: Added information about smoking weed: I dont smoke weed now.

Thanks in advance.

Australia peer ADHDers. How do you stay functional in this weather? in c/adhd@lemmy.world
[–] vaderaj@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Recently my issues have been like, I am warm(oodie) but the weather I interact with is cold and I am unable to process more than one weather setting 😅

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Australia peer ADHDers. How do you stay functional in this weather? (lemmy.world)
 

Hi community,

As the title suggests, I am struggling to stay functional in this weather. The air con makes the room feel weird and sweaty, I impulse purchased an oodie to stay warm and yet can't find a decent way to stay functional and get out of my bed unless I am expected to report to work.

Any tips/ideas? Thanks in advance.

PS: I take Ritalin LA (30 mg) and Escitalopram (10 mg)

Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] vaderaj@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The key highlight being: you don't need more than a gallon of lemonade. I for once wished big corps heard their engineers and domain experts over wall street loving exec's.

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I was born in 1997 and have no clue how the .com bubble looked like. With the way they are advertising AI right now (it will solve every problem on earth) it just annoys me, and what's worse people who aren't in the ML/DL field are buying it too. I am just curious how the .com was like and how it compares to the current AI bubble?

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